US think tank brands military ‘weak’ in face of ‘aggressive’ China
- The right-wing Heritage Foundation says Beijing is expanding its strength ‘with the cunning of serpents’ and compares the Taiwan situation with Ukraine
- Report says US military is ‘ill-equipped’ to cope with two major regional contingencies at the same time
The United States military has been rated “weak” by a conservative US think tank in a report that warns China is “expanding its strength and global influence with the cunning of serpents”.
In its index of US military power, which it downgraded from “marginal” to “weak”, the report said the force is certainly “ill-equipped” to handle two nearly simultaneous major regional contingencies – a situation that is made more difficult by the generally weak condition of key military allies.
The over 570-page document said China “has spent the past three decades methodically leveraging Western elites’ decadence and compromising American institutions to its own strategic advantage”.
It added: “We should remember Vladimir Putin and Ukraine when thinking of China and Taiwan.”
The assessment comes as relations between China and the US have worsened in the past year.